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Maersk’s North American chief of environmental initiatives has come out in favor of a renewed effort in the US Congress to limit the growth of greenhouse gas and other emissions from shipping over the next two decades.&nbsp;&nbsp; California Rep. Robert Garcia, who represents the area around the Port of Long Beach, and Sen. Alex Padilla said in a statement Thursday they are reintroducing the Clean Shipping Act for the 2023 legislative session.&nbsp;&nbsp; A rewrite of a bill introduced in the House of Representatives last year, the Clean Shipping Act of 2023 would essentially add emissions from commercial shipping to the...

Legislation now in Congress would put commercial shipping under the oversight of the US Clean Air Act and set increasing targets for cutting carbon dioxide emissions. 

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US House bill aims to cap further growth in ship emissions

MSC avoids fine as FMC finds no OSRA-22 violation in charge complaint

Coming implementation of European ETS setting up for a predictable mess: analyst

US LTL capacity tightens further as Estes cyberattack outage continues 

Ocean carriers sell US chassis lessor to private equity group

FMC dismisses ILA’s claims of price fixing at Southeast ports

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The Federal Maritime Commission said its enforcement agency does not have a case against the ocean carrier over a congestion surcharge complaint from a shipper.  

If shippers found the post-IMO 2020 bunker fuel formulas confusing and misaligned across ocean carriers, just wait until they see the surcharges linked to Europe’s new emissions trading system, says analyst Lars Jensen.

Brokered LTL freight may be the first freight diverted away from Estes, and it may be harder for those transactional shipments to find alternate carriers. 

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